To: Knighty Tin who wrote (536101 ) 2/5/2004 3:53:29 PM From: Gus Respond to of 769670 The dirty tricksters will capture or kill Osama just before the election, they will fake the economic numbers and put a Monday night slime job on the Democratic candidate before their pet Diebold voting machines steal the election on Tuesday. More conspiracy theories? I bet that the last conspiracy theory that you met and didn't like was the 1960 election.<g> 1960 Presidential Election Results (50 States in the Union) Candidate Party Popular Vote % Electoral KENNEDY Democratic 34,226,731 49.9% 303 NIXON Republican 34,108,157 49.7% 219<font color=blue> Margin 118,574 0.2% 84 </font> The election was the closest of the century, too close to call all night. Today, Americans who avoid voting because they do not think their vote matters should keep in mind that the final margin of victory in 1960 averaged one vote per precinct nationwide. Kennedy was another of the few presidents who have not been elected with a popular majority. (He received almost 50 percent of the vote, but to get him over the 50 percent mark, one must add in votes for Alabama electors who in fact did not support Kennedy.) The electoral college returns, however, tipped much further in favor of Kennedy. Nixon's supporters, however, thought that fraudulent vote counting in Illinois and a few other states had given Kennedy his victory. They urged Nixon to protest, but Nixon refused, believing that it would throw the country into turmoil. Nevertheless, Nixon later would justify his own campaign tricks by saying he was just returning the favor. At age forty-three, Kennedy had become youngest man ever elected president of the United States. Only Theodore Roosevelt had been younger on entering the Oval Office, and he had succeeded to the office.216.132.160.230